Minnesota Timberwolves want to make playoffs to stick it to Kevin Love
By Josh Hill
The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Kevin Love to the Cleveland Cavaliers and now that he’s gone, the team is hellbent on making the postseason without him.
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Kevin Love has been to All-Star games, he’s been on magazine covers and gotten fat endorsement deals but he’s never been to the playoffs before. It’s the reason he wanted out of Minnesota and it’s now something that Minnesota wants to show they can do on their own.
According to Darren Wolfson from ESPN 1500, one of the reasons the Wolves won’t be tanking this season is so they can make the playoffs and flash a middle finger at Kevin Love.
"Definitely not tanking. If that was the goal than Thaddeus Young wouldn’t be part of this transaction. The idea is to deliver a great eff-you to Kevin Love by making the playoffs without him. But in the stacked Western Conference, not sure that’s realistic. More realistic is a high draft pick next June. But not by design like Philadelphia."
Making the playoffs this season for the Wolves would be ideal as it would not only show that the team is coming around but it would be a giant tell off to Kevin Love. In all his year in Minnesota, Love never made the playoffs but the Wolves doing so in their first year without him would be the ultimate middle finger to Love.
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